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University of Waterloo. Unofficial student and alumni-run subreddit for the University of Waterloo community Founded 2009 · 111.7K members

111K members. The best post we have captured here reached 47.9K upvotes, which works out to 431 per 1,000 members.

431peak upvotes per 1,000 members
111Kmembers
47.9Kbest post
1.5Kmost comments
228posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

43% 31% 18%
Text 43% Image 31% Question 18% Video 4% Gallery 2% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Humour 20 Shitpost 19 Photo/Video 5 Art 4 Weebpost 3 Advice 3 Academics 3 Serious 2 Social 2 Discussion 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Fuck it, if this post receives 2000 upvotes I will tattoo a goose on my ass

↑ 47.9K 💬 1.3K text 2016

My university president is talking to me about internet safety and how quickly a photo can be seen by lots of people. If you are reading this, please…

↑ 33.8K 💬 297 image 2017

Tattoo of a Canada goose on my ass (OP delivers)

↑ 26K 💬 706 image 2017

State of my life rn

↑ 2.6K 💬 14 image 2022

For every upvote I will be doing a push up

↑ 2.5K 💬 110 text 2020

I'm the brother of the student who committed suicide yesterday morning.

↑ 2.4K 💬 446 text 2017

Guess we know what we are doing

↑ 2.3K 💬 327 image 2022

Bruh

↑ 2.3K 💬 29 image 2022

Be careful for what you wish for

↑ 2.3K 💬 41 image 2022

As long as it passes those tests

↑ 2.3K 💬 27 video 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/uwaterloo, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/uwaterloo?
r/uwaterloo ("University of Waterloo") describes itself this way: Unofficial student and alumni-run subreddit for the University of Waterloo community. It was founded in 2009 and has 111.7K members.
How many members does r/uwaterloo have?
r/uwaterloo has about 111K members. ViralHunt has tracked 228 of its posts; the biggest reached 47.9K upvotes, which is 431 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/uwaterloo?
"Fuck it, if this post receives 2000 upvotes I will tattoo a goose on my ass" reached 47.9K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2016, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/uwaterloo.
What subreddits are similar to r/uwaterloo?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/uwaterloo?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are text posts and 31% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/uwaterloo?
Across 228 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (16K avg upvotes), Thursday at 01:00 UTC (7.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 22:00 UTC (6.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/uwaterloo?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/uwaterloo has 1.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/uwaterloo, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.